This bottle came in the Beam Barreled & Boxed bottle purchase a few months back. Every six months or so, Beam offers up unique bottles to those people who are members of their bottle purchase program. This bottle is a 375ml bottle of Bourbon finished in Sauternes wine barrels. It is a very good Bourbon. Matt and I sat down to taste it the other day and here are our tasting notes.
Jim Beam Distillers’ Share – Kitchen Table Collaboration No.2
Proof: 105
Age: No Age Statement
Nose:
- Mike: Vanilla, grapes, marshmallows, baking spices and oak wood.
- Matt: Caramel, prunes, pine cones, leather and oak wood.
Taste:
- Mike: Vanilla, raisins, grapes, cinnamon, ginger and oak wood. Tasted with a dried cranberry and the spice becomes a white pepper. Tasted with a pecan and the vanilla becomes a rich French vanilla with raisins and cinnamon red hot candy.
- Matt: Caramel, raisins, cardamom, leather and oak wood. The dried cranberry enhanced the caramel. The pecan brought out peanut butter and chocolate.
Finish:
- Mike: Medium long with oak wood, cinnamon and lingering vanilla. The dried cranberry made the spice a white pepper. The pecan made the finish long with oak wood, cinnamon and French vanilla.
- Matt: Medium long with oak wood and caramel. The dried cranberry added lingering notes of leather. The pecan made the finish long with oak wood, leather and lingering caramel and chocolate.
I would pair this whiskey with a My Father Le Bijou 1922 cigar. I think this vanilla and cedar spice in the smoke would enhance the vanilla and spice of the whiskey.
Photos Courtesy of Rosemary Miller